My bees have been struggling for several weeks now. The Queen just up and disappearred. I ordered a new one as soon as I discovered the fact. When I put the new one in the hive, I discovered that I had a laying worker. This is not good because they only produce drones. I hd to take care of that prolem before introducing the new Queen.
When I opened the hive to check on the new Queen, I discovered that the hive was infected with wax moths. Normally, the moths do not attack a working hive. Unless the hive has become weaken for some reason. I had to remove all of the honey and comb that they had produced. The loss was too great. Before the Queen could produce enough worker bees to take over the hive, the old ones died. Wednesday when I checked the hive, there was not one bee left in it.
I'll have to wait till the spring to start another hive. This time I am going to have at least two hives. If I had had two hives, I could have move some workers over to the weak hive and saved it. But, als it was not to bee.
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Sorry about your bees! Maybe when you get the new hives set up, Bumblebee can come and work there. He makes honey, you know.
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